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If there is no privacy there is no freedom.

This article is the only article I’m posting today (7/13). It is a very important but lengthy article. It’s one of the rare instances where I deem it more worthwhile to spend a half-an-hour reading a single article than browsing through SLL’s daily selection of multiple articles. It details the plans which will culminate in requiring government permission to use the internet, eliminating anonymous posting and commentary, and making central-bank issued digital currencies the only mediums of exchange. Whitney Webb has detailed the stories behind Jeffrey Epstein, Covid-19, and now Cyberpolygon. Her work is always exhaustively researched, with extensive links to her internet-accessible sources. With the permission of Webb and the site where this story is originally published, The Last American Vagabond (thelastamericanvagabond.com), I am posting the entire story and it will be featured for the rest of the week. Her other articles at The Last American Vagabond, some of which I’ve posted on SLL, are also highly recommended. Note well the last paragraph of this article.

All of this should serve as a poignant reminder that, as much as our lives have become interconnected with the internet and online activity, the fight to protect human freedom, dignity and liberty against a predatory, global oligarchy is fundamentally one that must take place in the real world, not only online. May the coming “cyber war”, whatever form it takes, remind many that online activism must be accompanied by real world actions and organizing.

Ending Anonymity: Why the WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens the Future of Privacy, by Whitney Webb

With many focusing on tomorrow’s Cyber Polygon exercise, less attention has been paid to the World Economic Forum’s real ambitions in cybersecurity – to create a global organization aimed at gutting even the possibility of anonymity online. With the governments of the US, UK and Israel on board, along with some of the world’s most powerful corporations, it is important to pay attention to their endgame, not just the simulations.

Amid a series of warnings and simulations in the past year regarding a massive cyber attack that could soon bring down the global financial system, the “information sharing group” of the largest banks and private financial organizations in the United States warned earlier this year that banks “will encounter growing danger” from “converging” nation-state and criminal hackers over the course of 2021 and in the years that follow.

The organization, called the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), made the claim in its 2021 “Navigating Cyber” report, which assesses the events of 2020 and provides a forecast for the current year. That forecast, which casts a devastating cyber attack on the financial system through third parties as practically inevitable, also makes the case for a “global fincyber [financial-cyber] utility” as the main solution to the catastrophic scenarios it predicts.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, an organization close to top FS-ISAC members has recently been involved in laying the groundwork for that very “global fincyber utility” — the World Economic Forum, which recently produced the model for such a utility through its Partnership against Cybercrime (WEF-PAC) project. Not only are top individuals at FS-ISAC involved in WEF cybersecurity projects like Cyber Polygon, but FS-ISAC’s CEO was also an adviser to the WEF-Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report that warned that the global financial system was increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks and was the subject of the first article in this 2-part series.

Another article, published earlier this year at Unlimited Hangout, also explored the WEF’s Cyber Polygon 2020 simulation of a cyber attack targeting the global financial system. Another iteration of Cyber Polygon is due to take place tomorrow July 9^th and will focus on simulating a supply chain cyber attack.

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